In message <6.2.5.6.2.20080717162554.03f77770@esat.kuleuven.be>,
Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be> writes
>Several people provided arguments against marking up language changes
>for each foreign name and word.
>
>One person said that frequent language changes were judged as annoying
>or even a hindrance in many tests with blind users (what's wrong now,
>why is there a pause?).
Surely there are more reasons for marking up language changes than just
to cater for speech-synthesiser users? What about as an aid to
spell-checking, search optimisation, and translation?
Who's top say that the next version of whichever user-agent pauses at
such a change. won't be fixed?
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Andy Mabbett